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• 'COVID is not done,' Canadian infectious disease expert says ahead of WHO announcement

  While RSV and flu cases steadily decline in Canada, the World Health Organization is set to announce on Monday whether it still considers COVID-19 a global health emergency, but one infectious disease specialist says we still need to keep an eye on the coronavirus.

  

• As Canada's RCMP marks 150th anniversary, a look at what it says needs to change

  After years of reports and allegations detailing a 'toxic' workplace, Canada's RCMP says it is trying to evolve, focusing on diversity in its organization and repairing relationships with communities as it marks its 150th anniversary.

  

• Russians gone from Ukrainian village, but fear and hardship remain

  It has been more than 11 weeks since Ukrainian forces wrested back the village of Kalynivske, in Kherson province, from Russian occupation. But liberation has not diminished the hardship for residents, both those returning home and the ones who never left.

  

• Furniture donations needed to support Ukrainian newcomers in Edmonton

  An organization helping Ukrainian newcomers settle into their new lives in Edmonton is hosting a furniture donation blitz to help restock their warehouse.

  

• Once-in-a-lifetime discovery: Indigenous jacket that may be a century old turns up in small U.K. town

  When 1990s suede fringe jackets started making a comeback last year, a U.K.-based vintage clothing company decided to order four tonnes of suede from a supplier in the United States. Along with that shipment came a once-in-a lifetime discovery.

• Wild North rescues orphaned lynx cub near Drayton Valley

  An orphaned lynx is getting some help surviving, thanks to an Alberta wildlife rehabilitation organization.

• Canadian police chiefs speak out on death of Black man beaten by U.S. officers

  Canadian police chiefs condemned on Friday the death of a Black man who was savagely beaten by police during a traffic stop in the United States, saying the officers involved must be held accountable.

• RCMP dispatched to Bonnyville rec centre for firearm complaint

  Bonnyville's Centennial Centre was evacuated Saturday as RCMP responded to a report of a person with a firearm.

• John de Ruiter makes first court appearance; book author says women in Oasis have been 'traumatized'

  The self-proclaimed spiritual leader accused of sexually assaulting four of his female followers between 2017 and 2020 made his first court appearance in Edmonton.

• CRA head says it 'wouldn't be worth the effort' to review all ineligible pandemic payments

  The head of the Canada Revenue Agency says it 'wouldn't be worth the effort' to fully review $15.5 billion in potentially ineligible pandemic wage benefit payments flagged by Canada's Auditor General.

• Inflation-focused Pierre Poilievre back to Parliament as health-care talks loom

  With a deal under negotiation between Ottawa and provinces, and premiers invited to a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in early February, the issue remains one where the Tory leader's position appears somewhat murky, including to some inside his own party.

• Convoy of Albertans make a 'Coutts Loop' in border town to mark 1-year anniversary of blockade

  A convoy of Albertans marked the one-year anniversary of the Coutts border blockade in the tiny southern Alberta border town Saturday.